Thursday at the 2026 PGA Championship: Aronimink punches back, Blockie wins us over, and Higgo clown show
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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What a day! Andy and Brendan are giddy from a Thursday at the PGA Championship that delivered a cornucopia of delights from Blockie rumbling back into our lives, Bryson DeChambeau’s dumb coat, an AI PGA Assistant that went haywire, and the incredible Garrick Higgo late-to-the-tee penalty and explanation. They begin with some Aronimink course thoughts, hailing the Donald Ross design, the greens, and the test that came stiffer than what was imagined. They discuss some stars that flopped, like Bryson and Rory, and others who soared, like Scottie and Potty. They close it out with the “real” leaderboard and some Storylines Nobody's Talking About as we head to day two at the PGA.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics. |
| 0:04.0 | There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. |
| 0:09.0 | So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:27.0 | Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a Thursday edition of a Thursday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:43.9 | It is May 14th. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.4 | Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. I got to say, what a delightful day of golf. |
| 0:55.1 | That was so fun. I don't know about delightful day of golf and other things. |
| 1:00.5 | I would say we pushed outside the boundaries of golf to find our delights today. |
| 1:04.8 | But that's just generally what the PGA can do. |
| 1:08.3 | Early on, you know, there might be, you know, arrests, there may be odds and ends. |
| 1:12.8 | There might be Don Rea like strutting around. |
| 1:15.2 | That's what we get with the PGA. |
| 1:16.8 | And we got it in buckets today. |
| 1:18.6 | It was honestly, some of it was golf Twitter showed up. |
| 1:22.9 | I was howling at many, many of the cracking jokes on there. |
| 1:27.5 | Just what was delivered in our lap this morning. |
| 1:30.9 | I wake up, you know, first things I see is Braden Shattuck. |
| 1:35.3 | And, I mean, he's just shipping one over the OB fence that comes back inbound. |
| 1:39.3 | It felt horrible for him. |
| 1:40.4 | That was like my intro of the day. |
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